On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:07, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > >> Thanks for the info! Bummer! I don't ever see myself going back to >> 32-bit environments unless I will start working on embedded systems >> which seems unlikely at this point. > > There is, of course, no particular need to use the 64-bit kernel if all you > want to do is run 64-bit userspace software. My old MacBook Pro doesn't > support the 64-bit kernel, but it runs 64-bit apps just fine.
Does that mean that individual apps will be able to access the full 8GiB of RAM that I have installed and that the OS itself can make good use of it, too? > > > > -- Johannes Obligatory current favourite quotes: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful". -- Seneca "I have more confidence in the methods of science, based on the amazing record of science and its ability over the centuries to answer unanswerable questions, than I do in the methods of faith (what are they?)." -- David J. Gross "Physics Nobel Laureate" "Atheism is a religion to the same extent that not collecting stamps is a hobby." -- seen on Slashdot.org _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
